Brighton & Hove City Council is inviting you to join us in sharing the following statement on the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Tuesday 20 November 2018). Please let us know if you will add your organisation’s name to the statement and share the message on your channels on Transgender Day of Remembrance. We will add your organisation’s name at the end of the statement we issue if you confirm support by midday on Monday 19 November.

Statement of unity and support on Transgender Day of Remembrance

Brighton & Hove is recognised as a beacon for LGBTQ+ communities and a welcoming city where we are able to be true to ourselves, to live authentically and celebrate the strength that real diversity brings to us as a city.

We stand firmly alongside our trans friends, family, colleagues, students, customers, to defend their right for full inclusion and trans equality.

We recognise the challenges and increasing hostility directed at the trans and non-binary community and individuals. We are proud to celebrate our city’s diversity and offer support and solidarity.

Everyone deserves to be valued and treated with respect. That is not open to debate. Trans lives are not a debate.